6 articles tagged with "Botnet"
New KadNap botnet targets Asus routers using peer-to-peer Kademlia protocol for stealth C2. Over 60% of infections in the US, linked to Faceless proxy service.
New botnet loader stores encrypted commands in smart contracts on Polygon, making traditional infrastructure takedowns ineffective. Operating costs are under $1 for 100+ commands.
New Linux botnet SSHStalker infected 7,000 cloud servers using brute-force SSH attacks and 2009-era kernel exploits. Uses IRC for command-and-control while apparently staging for future operations.
Budget Android TV boxes and tablets ship with backdoors from the factory, turning home networks into criminal infrastructure for ad fraud and proxy services.
Nine-month-old botnet campaign pivots to exploit CVE-2025-55182 in Next.js, deploying cryptominers and Mirai variants across exposed instances.
Massive Android botnet targets set-top boxes and tablets, issued 1.7 billion attack commands in 3 days, briefly surpassing Google in DNS rankings.